Any fans of the classics? I am looking for suggestions outside of the Brontë Sisters, Jane Austen & Elizabeth Gaskell…
Any fans of the classics?
I am looking for suggestions outside of the Brontë Sisters, Jane Austen & Elizabeth Gaskell…
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I’m currently reading The Scarlet Letter.
I have that book and have yet to read it. Thanks for mentioning it!
I was supposed to read it in high school but I never did.
I’m loving it!
I have a few of those I was supposed to but didn’t, like Don Quixote ??♀️
I’m loving Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables right now.
Wilkie Collins.
Howard’s End by EM Forster is one of my faves. So so good!
And I’m a huge fan of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Such a masterpiece.
Anything by Charles Dickens!!!
Middlemarch!
I’ll be looking for all of these tomorrow. My husband has taken to stopping at half price books after church on Sunday’s ?
War and peace is a beast to read but its totally worth it
I’ve heard so many people say this. I own a copy at home and think it’s high time I actually read it. I happen to love the classics so I’ll probably be a big fan.
Tess of the d’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.
All quiet on the western front – is an all time great story for me.
Also a good non European classic is things fall apart by Chinua Achebe
Anne of Green Gables is a great series also.
Anything by Daphne du Maurier, John Steinbeck, or William Styron.
Second Daphne du Maurier – love her books!
John Steinbeck’s East of Eden.
Oh and brave new world if Ur into dystopians
Love dystopian!
Gone with the Wind
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne is one of my favorites. So is Dickens’ David Copperfield
E M.Forster
Count Dracula, Frankenstein
A Tale of Two Cities and Hamlet. Also The Canterbury Tales.
Anne of Green Gables and the Little House books are my fav.
I recently read Lolita: beautifully written, Slaughterhouse 5: great easy read
Hounds of the Baskervilles
I love Charles Dickens
Anya Seton. Green Darkness or Dragonwyck. Both are good. Not super old but not recent.
Edith Wharton
I have read them all. There is also Moby Dick, 10,000 leagues Under The sea, When Worlds Collide, The Caine Mutiny, Battle Cry Barnes And Noble had a special section for classics. You should investigate that. Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote for children but I loved her pioneer books.
Half Price Books has a whole section also and I’ll pay $2-$4 per book. I love that place!
^Also a fan of Wharton. I also love Steinbeck. East of Eden may be my all-time favorite. Love Dickens too.
H. G. Wells
Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises
Forever Amber,
Anya Seton, Daphine DuMaurier, Georgette Heyer James Joyce I could go on and on.
Loveeeeeeeeeee the classics!
I didn’t read through all the comments, they were probably already suggested, but I like more modern classics. Of Mice And Men, The Catcher In The Rye, Little Women, And Then There Were None…
Actually, I don’t believe these were, aside from Little Women.
A Raisin In The Sun as well. I haven’t read To Kill A Mockingbird or The Grapes Of Wrath yet, but I intend to someday. Most of these books are ones that I first read in junior high. But they’ve stayed with me all these years. Oh! Not really what you’re looking for, but I remember reading and LOVING Bridge To Terabithia and Tuck Everlasting in school as well. I highly recommend them if you haven’t read them yet.
Sorry, I’m a book blogger. I could go on for days with recommendations. ?
I read To Kill a Mockingbird, it’s a good book.
How about Charles Dickens, Upton Sinclair, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Wilde, and Agatha Christie, to start with.
Jules Verne, Edith Wharton
A friend of mine has some classics that she’s letting me have and then I’ll go shopping for the rest. Y’all are awesome! ?
I loved The Count of Monte Cristo
Try Anthony Trollope.